2005 Seed Grants

Project Lead Affiliation Title  
Nabeel Bardeesy, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital The pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell-of-origin  
Dong Feng Chen, MD, PhD Schepens Eye Research Institute Repairing retinal disease and damage by neural stem/progenitor cell transplantation  
Alan James Davidson, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital Functional genomics approach to identify genes expressed in the kidney  
Kevin C. Eggan, PhD Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Derivation of Parkinson's disease specific human embryonic stem cell lines  
Niels Geijsen, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital In vitro germ cell development and epigenetic reprogramming using human and murine ES cells  
Rohit Kulkarni, MD, PhD Joslin Diabetes Center Identification of beta cell growth factor  
Jeannie Lee, MD, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital Analysis of X-chromosome inactivation in human embryonic stem cells  
M. William Lensch, PhD Children's Hospital The analysis of complex genetic syndromes using disease-specific human embryonic stem cell lines  
Craig Michelli, PhD Harvard Medical School Progenitor cells in the adult Drosophila gut: understanding tissue renewal in endoderm lineages  
Hanna Mikkola, MD, PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Placenta as a niche for hematopoietic stem cell development  
Rosario Sanchez-Pernaute, MD, PhD McLean Hospital Characterization, transplantation and functional analysis of dopamine neuronal progenitors derived from primate and human embryonic stem cells  
Amy Wagers, PhD Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Biology and function of adult skeletal muscle precursor cells